Friday, July 02, 2010

An old phone scam is making a comeback. You get a call, purportedly from the Make-a-Wish Foundation, that says you’ve won a sweepstakes. You stand to collect $350,000. All you need to do is wire them a payment for "taxes" or "insurance" in order to collect your money. A variation involves them requesting a credit number and expiration date so that they can “charge your account.” The better scammers even give you phone numbers with legit sounding area codes you can call to "verify" the insurance or tax charges being requested. The phone numbers provided, of course, are those of other persons involved in the scam.

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